“The stars” Crollius said “are the matrix of all the plants, every star is nothing but the
spiritual image of a plant and, as every plant is an earth’s star that looks at the sky, in
the same way every star is a sky’s plant in a spiritual form that differs from the earth’s
one just in the substance…, the plants from the sky are oriented towards the earth
and look directly at the plants which they created, infusing them particular virtues”.
Crollius, Traitè des signatures (trad. fr., Lyon, 1624, p.18)